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Mannerism
Mannerism moves away from the Renaissance style which offered a clear illusion of space, readable narratives, and anatomically correct figures. Instead, Mannerist art features experimentation, complexity in the illusion of space and the anatomy of the body, and a new sense of exaggerated elegance.
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El Anatsui, Old Man’s Cloth, 2011, bottle caps, material, material (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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